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Contextual Conceptualization The concept of context is integral in analyzing rhetoric and writing. Context, as defined by The American Century Dictionary, is 1) parts that surround or clarify a word or passage 2) relevant circumstances. It is the context which is the space and time in which something belongs, the matrix. The importance of context is so eminent that Rhetoric and Writing Studies 200 will change its course title to ˇ§Argument in Context.ˇ¨ This will show students that an argument is relative to its context. When something is taken out of context its original meaning can be unclear, and in other cases where an argument is put into a new context the meaning can be skewed or even seen differently than the original author intended. To support this I will use the works of Eric Gary Anderson and Frederick Jackson Turner to show that context is essential to argument. In Eric Gary Andersonˇ¦s essay, ˇ§Unsettling Frontiers,ˇ¨ he show us not only the frontier of the late 1800ˇ¦s, as Fredrick Jackson Turner also does, but goes beyond and describes the context in which the frontier existed. He paints a picture of what surrounded the frontier, the people that occupied it, and the tumultuous feeling of chaos, disorder, and adventure which hung thick in the air of the dirty southwest. Mixing literature and history, Anderson shows us that the frontier was more than a section of the census report. Turner tells us that in 1890 the Superintendent of the Census claims that the frontier is closed, but the Census is merely a statistical methodology which cannot measure the emotion or feeling in the southwest at that time.
Approximate Word count = 1022
Approximate Pages = 4.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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